al-Said al-Mu'tadid, Almohad caliph
Draft card for Abu al-Hasan al-Said al-Mu'tadid, the Almohad caliph raised in Seville in 1242 and deposed in 1248; the dynastic handbook entry is not yet checked on the page.
Reign · Almohad Caliphate · no. 11 in the chain · 1242–1248 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Al-Qurtubi leaves al-Andalus for the East
Al-Maqqari places Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qurtubi in the chapter 'Andalusis who travelled to the lands of the East': he left Cordoba as an emigrant and settled in Egypt. The Encyclopaedia of Islam says he 'made his way to the Orient and settled at Munyat Abi l-Khusayb in Upper Egypt'.
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Battle of Oujda
Draft card for the Battle of Oujda in 1248, the Marinid-Zayyanid clash on the frontier; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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The fall of Seville by treaty
Seville was besieged in 645 and surrendered to the Castilian on Monday 5 Sha'ban 646 after about seventeen months of investment. Ibn al-Dabbagh, shaykh of al-Andalus in grammar and the readings, died there within weeks — destroyed, the source says, by the church bell where the adhan had gone silent.
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The 'alama affair: Ibn al-Abbar dismissed, confined, then pardoned at Tunis, ~645/1247
As chief of the chancellery at Tunis, Ibn al-Abbar was ordered to leave a blank in official documents where the sahib al-'alama filled in the authentication; he did not carry out the instruction, was dismissed and put under arrest in his own house — then pardoned and reinstated in office.
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Murcia handed to the enemy by treaty
Murcia was handed to the Christians by treaty on Thursday 10 Shawwal — Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hud, son of its own governor, came with a company of Christian notables and surrendered it by compact.
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Siege of Cartagena (1245)
Draft card for Siege of Cartagena (1245); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Jaén
Draft card for the Siege of Jaén of 1245–1246, Ferdinand III's capture of the city; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Seville
Draft card for the Siege of Seville in 1248, the western Islamic capital's fall to Ferdinand III; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Tlemcen
Draft card for Siege of Tlemcen; its sources are not yet checked on the page.